Please find resources and information to describe the following concepts about your disease:1. What is the cause of the disease? (what organism causes it?) Describe the organism (What type of organism is it? What is it’s life cycle?)Cholera is caused by the bacterium Vibrio Cholera. The virus, V. Cholerae, is the cause of cholera.2. What is the mechanism of the disease? (how does the organism cause the disease? How does it get into the human body? How does it grow?)Its spread by eating or drinking food or water contaminated by the fecal waste of an infected person. It gets into the body eating or drinking poop.3. How do medical personnel diagnose the disease? (what are the symptoms of the disease? How does it damage the body?)The symptoms of this disease are diarrhia and vomiting. Choleria is an infection in the intestines. In some cases there are rapid fluid losses which causes dehidration. This disease in the most severe cases can be fatal in hours.4. How can the disease be prevented? (Name specific steps that people can take to prevent becoming infected by the disease)This disease can be prevented by proper hygiene, eating clean food, and drinking safe water (With out "fecal waste")What about water treatment?5. What treatment(s) is (are) available for this disease? The primary treatment is with oral rehydration to replace water and electrolytes,oral rehydration is drinking fluids such as water.Antibotics can also be used to speed up treatment.6. What is known about the history of the disease? (where the disease is most common, etc.) Cholera first spread by trade routes to Russia in 1817, then from Europe to North America The first cholera pandemic occurred in India starting in 1817 through 1824.people who traveler are most likely to get chlorea when they visit areas that have people with the diesase. Filippo Pacini was the first man to discover the disease,and Louis pasteur found the cure for it7. How did (does) this disease affect society & culture in the places where it was (is) found?8. Provide graphicsthat explain how the disease is transmitted from one person to another; how it damages the human body; what the organism that causes it looks like.
The primary treatment is with oral rehydration to replace water and electrolytes,oral rehydration is drinking fluids such as water.Antibotics can also be used to speed up treatment.6. What is known about the history of the disease? (where the disease is most common, etc.)
Cholera first spread by trade routes to Russia in 1817, then from Europe to North America
The first cholera pandemic occurred in India starting in 1817 through 1824.people who traveler are most likely to get chlorea when they visit areas that have people with the diesase. Filippo Pacini was the first man to discover the disease,and Louis pasteur found the cure for it7. How did (does) this disease affect society & culture in the places where it was (is) found?8. Provide graphicsthat explain how the disease is transmitted from one person to another; how it damages the human body; what the organism that causes it looks like.